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I have a website that I would like to subscribe to via my RSS reader. The website itself doesn't publicize its RSS feed, however when I used Google Reader it was able to find one, and it works perfectly well. Google Reader cites http://www.stratfor.com/rss.xml as the address for the RSS feed. However, when I try to enter that feed, it says "Page not found". I suspect that this is because that file does exist on the website, but is forbidden; and that for some weird reason google reader has access to it. Is that the case?
Anyways, I would really like my own RSS reader to be able to subscribe to it, because it has functionalities that Google reader does not. Besides, it intrigues me -- how come Google reader can read it, but other RSS reader cannot?
Nicole
Posted 2012-10-31T15:42:12.887
Reputation: 101
1Maybe there was a feed at that address in the past and Google Reader still has its cache of old articles? – Joey – 2012-10-31T15:51:10.033
Oh,Joey, you are magnificent! Hmm... Let's see whether I can find a way to find that cached xml file... – Nicole – 2012-10-31T15:55:32.387
Hmmm.. Can you suggest a workaround? – Nicole – 2012-10-31T15:57:25.420
I don't think you can get the address itself to work again, nor do I think that Google Reader keeps the XML files somewhere. Feed Readers tend to slurp everything into their own database. – Joey – 2012-10-31T15:59:15.113
Slight necrobump : https://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http://www.stratfor.com/rss.xml -> https://www.google.com/reader/atom/feed/http://www.stratfor.com/rss.xml?n=1000 ; http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/26567/how-to-raise-google-reader-rss-feed-entry-limit/28156#28156
– Matti Nescio – 2013-01-24T15:54:25.493